Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
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What a Time It Was!: Leonard Lyons and the Golden Age of New York Nightlife
New York: Abbeville Press, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. If you thought you knew everything about Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, the Roosevelts, and some of New York's most famous nightclubs, hotels, and gin joints, guess again. No one knew these people and places better than Leonard.....
The Prince (Chinese Bound)
London: Amber Books Ltd, 2012. Designed by Rick Fawcett. A Fine Hardcover. Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written about 1513 but not published until 1532. He has.....
Livingstone the Liberator: A Study of a Dynamic Personality
London and Glasgow: Collins, 1961. Reprint. Hardcover.
The Speeches of The Right Hon. Henry Grattan; to which is added his Letter on the Union, with a Commentary on his Career and Character
Dublin: James Duffy, 1853. 2nd Edition. A Good Hardcover. Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) was an Irish politician and member of the Irish House of Commons, who campaigned for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century.He has been described as a superb orator - nervous, high-flown.....
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The Argentina Journal: Paintings and Memories: [with] Casting Pebbles on the Water [With] a Cluster of Colors: The Artworks and Memories of Peter Z. Malkin, The Israeli Secret Agent Who Captured Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann Through His Art [2 volumes]
New York: Vwf Pub Inc, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcovers in a Fine Dust Jackets and Equality Fine Slipcase. In 1960, Malkin was sent by the Head of the Mossad, to capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and bring him to Israel from Argentina to stand trial for.....
Great Deeds of Danes, Norwegians, and Holsteinians
London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1807. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. .. intended to form the Danish youth to magnanimity valour generosity and other virtues by means of such models as the Danish history furnishes a competent acquaintance with the events of his country and the character.....
Between Silk and Cyanide: a Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
New York: The Free Press, 1999. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. ...[a] spellbinding real-life thriller.... Marks is a natural storyteller who brilliantly links the highly technical issue of codes and ciphers to the fates of individual agents. [The New York Times Book Review, David Stafford.].
A Hero for Our Times : an Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years
New York: Scribner, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A portrait of John and Jacqueline Kennedy profiles the Kennedy family, their marriage, and JFK's political career.
Caesar
New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Retells the story of Caesar in a glamorous, sexually charged light, depicting the downfall of a charismatic showman desperate for power. [AZ].
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Matteson…sheds new light on one of America's first families of literature, the Alcotts. Elegantly written and brimming with insights. -- Megan MarshallThe beloved author of Little Women was torn between pleasing her idealistic father and planting.....
The Summing Up
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1938. Near Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Autobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. Written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938. It.....
Michener's South Pacific
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. May is one of the foremost authorities on writer James Michener. In this book he takes you inside the creation of Michener's Tales of the South Pacific and the musical South Pacific.....
Wodehouse: A Life
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "His characters have never tasted the forbidden fruit" was Evelyn Waugh's assessment of P. G. Wodehouse, and, by all accounts, Wodehouse was the most undersexed and sweet-tempered of men, a stranger to the.....
Traditional Musicians of the Central Blue Ridge: Old Time, Early Country, Folk and Bluegrass Label Recording Artists, with Discographies (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, #3)
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. Soft cover. Long recognized as one of the richest repositories of folksong in the United States, the Central Blue Ridge has also been a prolific source of commercial recording, starting in 1923 with Henry Whitter's 'hillbilly' music and continuing into the 21st century. This reference work.....
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat: Field Command v. 1
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1969. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Bragg was commander of the Army of Tennessee. This work carries Bragg through the defeat at Murfeesboro in January 1863.
Walker Evans
New York: Basic Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Fame in Our Time
New York: American Book - Stratford Press, Inc, 1960. A Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket. Background Information:Arch Merrill was a newspaper reporter for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle from 1923 to the late 1960s. He was a prolific writer, best known for his articles in the.....
Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 (The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Describes the historical background for the romance and marriage between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and shares the letters they exchanged between their meeting and marriage.
I Elizabeth
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Historian Miles' novel is in the form of a memoir that Elizabeth I is writing near the end of her long and amazing life. Through Elizabeth's eyes, the reader sees the life-and-death court intrigues, the religious conflicts, and.....
No. 10 Downing Street : A House In History.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Background Information: From the Dust Jacket: R.J. Minney, British biographer and novelist, has now written a genealogy of the prime ministership, taking No. 10 as the vantage point from which he.....
Inside Passage: Living With Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians
Adventures Unltd, 1997. 5th or later Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Where the sky is his ceiling and the mountains his walls, Michael Modzelewski describes his adventures as he forms unusual friendships with passing yachters, salmon fishermen, Kwakiutl Indians, loners and the owner of the house he.....
GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Rich in detail and insight, this deeply affecting book pays tribute to both the unsung heroism of the American Jewish servicemen of World War II and to the historian's craft. A......
Bullet Bob Comes to Louisville: And Other Tales from a Baseball Life
South Bend, Indiana, Diamond Communications, 1998. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Broadcaster: Charlie Slowes ; Author and Signed by player: Joseph David Magrane a former Major League Baseball pitcher and is currently a color commentary broadcaster for the MLB Network. During his rookie season he helped the Cardinals win.....
Faulkner's Mississippi
New York: Oxmoor House, 1990. Photography by William Eggleston. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. An insightful analysis of William Faulkner's complex fictional world of YoKnapatawpha County in this rare perspective through text and photographs of the fallen world of Southern aristocracy. One in which readers will come to.....